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1 Kings 8:38-44 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

38. when prayer or supplication is made by anyone or by all Your people Israel—each knowing the plague of his own heart—when one spreads his hands toward this House,

39. then may you hear from heaven, Your dwelling place, forgive and act, and give to each man according to all his ways, as You know his heart to be. For You alone know the hearts of all the children of men.

40. Then they will fear You all the days that they live in the land that You gave to our fathers.

41. “Moreover concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a distant country because of Your Name—

42. for they will hear of Your great Name, of Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm—when he comes to pray toward this House,

43. then may you hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner asks of You. So all the peoples of the earth may know Your Name, to fear You as Your people Israel do, and know that this House that I have built is called by Your Name.

44. “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You send them, and they pray to Adonai toward the city which You have chosen and toward the House which I have built for Your Name,

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